The Versant RN Residency in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, was one of three nursing practice transition programs to achieve accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Practice Transition Accreditation Program.
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Learn about research showing how elderly patients who are admitted to the hospital for monitoring and surgical treatment of traumatic injuries could have better geriatric care if medical teams took one extra step by offering geriatric consultation early on.
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A "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has infected seven patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and may have contributed to the deaths of two of these patients, according to media reports. More than 160 others were exposed to carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae through contaminated medical scopes used during endoscopic procedures that took place at the medical center between October and January. The...
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Learn about Julia Routman, an MSN/FNP candidate at UCLA, using her Schweitzer fellowship to help diabetics patients begin statin therapy at Northeast Valley Health Corporation, San Fernando, Calif., where she is employed as a nurse.
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Read about Sheila M. Gephart, PhD, RN, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing in Tucson, one of 12 nursing faculty chosen to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Nurse Faculty Scholars program.
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PeaceHealth's Oregon employees, including nurses, will be the first to participate in a series of three-day bio-preparedness trainings offered in 2015 by Corvallis-based Samaritan Health Services.
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